HFA Participant Recruitment Coordinator Emma Lachs and Research Assistant Tooba Umar attended the Champaign County Annual Summer Senior Event on June 10. The Summer Senior Event allowed for networking with community organizations that support older adults and interactions with many
Postdoctoral research associates Nila Albuquerque, Hye Soo Lee, and George Mois attended the CREATE Workshop in New York City. Nila, Hye Soo, and George learned alongside more than 20 participants from diverse disciplines. To learn more about CREATE, please visit
The Human Factors and Aging Laboratory welcomed two Community Academic Scholars this summer. Undergraduate students Afnaan Afsar Ali and Adam Syed will assist on a project working with ClarkLindsey called “Understanding the Benefits of the Stretch Mobile Manipulator Robot to
Megan Bily received an Outstanding Oral Presentation Award for her presentation “What is Aging Independently and What’s a Robot Got to do with it?” at the Undergraduate Research Symposium. Congratulations, Megan! To view the full list of awards, please click here.
Eight undergraduate students presented research posters from the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory at the Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 27th. Congratulations to Afnaan Afsar Ali, Divya Bhookya, Maya Dye, Husna Hussaini, Shelly Manila, Noah Olivero, Olivia Rojas, and Melissa
Afnaan Afsar Ali, an undergraduate research assistant in the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory, was featured in the College of Applied Health Sciences News. She was interviewed about her research poster “Understanding the Role of a Socially Assistive Robot to
An oral presentation session of the Undergraduate Research Symposium titled “Robotic Advancements in Support of Aging Populations” was filled by undergraduate students Jade Marks, Saathveek Gowrishankar, and Megan Bily, members of the HFA Lab’s Human-Robot Interaction team. All three delivered
Husna Hussaini received an award for “Best Undergraduate Paper” from the Department of Sociology for the proposal she wrote as part of her Honors Senior Thesis in the Human Factors & Aging Laboratory. The paper was titled “Older Adults’ Perspectives
Undergraduate research assistant Husna Hussaini recently presented a poster titled “Instructional Assessing the Potential of Voice-Activated Digital Home Assistants for Older Adults with Mobility Disability” at the Stanford Research Conference. Husna was selected as a recipient of a Conference Travel
Human Factors & Aging Laboratory graduate student Mimi Trinh successfully defended her master’s thesis “Understanding Older Adults’ Motivations to Use Digital Health Technology” on April 7. Mimi’s study was very creative and explored an important area of community health.